unimogjohn

It is Tuesday, PM, June 16th. "Captain Kirk ----- Scott here, WE HAVE POWER! The power guys showed up with a full crew around 8 AM. One crew worked on the the pole and the other worked on the transformer and meter base connections. Within three short hours they were done. When they gave me the OK I ran into the garage and threw on the main breaker, then all the circuit breakers one by one. Everything works too. The pole has a lot of new "do dads". Before it just has the big can transformer. Now it has lots of things hanging off it. Here are the pics I took.

Paul, yes it was hot yesterday, about 93 degrees and with the high dew point it felt like 99. I can only work until about noon at the latest and then have to give it up. Funny, this new insulation does not bother me as long as I come in and wash it off right after I am done working. It is Monday, June 15, mid PM. The garage work continues, but today I just watched. The electrical contractors came and buried the power line from the pole, around the house, and up to the new garage. A total of 360 feet of wire. They also placed the transformer just inside the fence line and about 50 feet from the garage. They arrived at 7 AM and left at about 2 PM. The electricians are going to be here tomorrow to connect the wire to the pole, the transformer, and the meter panel. Then I should have power. Here are the pics for the day.

It is Sunday, June 14th, PM. Spent another long morning with, guess what? Insulation. We quit hanging the stuff when we ran out of the fiberglass bats and put up a couple more double bubble panels. Now we are out of the double bubble insulation too. Alice is helping with the high ladder stuff so things do go more quickly than with just one person. I have been working non-stop on the garage for more than a month so going to take a week off. Not even going to buy more supplies. It will be fun to watch the electrical contractors run the main power line. They have not told me when they expect to energize the line. Here is a pic of the finished wall with the double bubble insulation.

It is Saturday, June 13th, early PM. Headed out to the garage at about 7 o'clock. Guess what i did? More insulation. I am now finished with the first 10 feet, only 4 more feet to go. I did go up to 14 feet on one section so I could hang the double bubble reflective insulation. Worked well, Just tacked it up lightly for now as I just wanted to see how it looks. I tucked in about two inches into the back of the OSB panel. Gives it a nice finish look as it covers up the brown paper backed insulation. It should also increase the R value of the walls to above R20 or maybe R25. I do have to put in a 15 inch wide piece of insulation at the very top where the trusses go into the soffit. One good thing is that the double bubble installation will go really quick. I don't think I have enough of it left over from the roof so will order some more when I figure out how much I need. Here are a couple of pics of the double bubble stuff on the wall.

It is Friday, June 12th PM. Not much going on. Am only able to work on the garage until noonish. Then it becomes just too hot. It was up to around 94 with a heat index of 99. I am still putting up insulation. I actually enjoy it, but now I am working about 12 feet up on ladders. Lots of up and down work so progress is slowed somewhat. I do have the entire garage insulated up 8 feet and in some places 12 feet. I have to go up to 14 feet. I figure that I have about 30 fiberglass panels to go up to finish. I do not have any more OSB panels left so will have to head to Home Depot for about 12 more. I have not decided on what and how to do the underside of the roof. I can put up the R19 fiberglass panels, the same as in the walls, but it will not be as durable as I would like nor will it be pretty. A brown paper ceiling is just not going to cut it. I will have to do some more research. And I have to get a electric commercial scissor lift to do it too, no way to work that high with ladders. I figure that it could take me a week to do it. The cost will be around $2,000 to include the lift rental. Or I guess I can just leave it for now. It does have a layer of the double bubble reflective insulation on it now, The contractor says that it has a R value of about 15. I do not know if I believe that. Oh, some good news. Just got a call from the power company. Their contractor is coming Monday morning to bring in the main power line from the pole to the garage, about 340 feet plus a transformer. The line is going to be buried 3 feet down. Still waiting for the contractor to come back and put in a retaining wall. If the work is not done when I get finished with the insulation I guess that I will do it. Will take me a few days, but I have the equipment to do it. It is not critical that it get done immediately, but would like it done before the fall rains come. I also need to get two truck loads of gravel to finish off the driveway. I have decided not to pour a huge concrete slab in front of the garage for now. Well, that is my garage update. Pictures of the electrical work on Monday, so stay tuned.

Keiser, that is an Australian made Dodge, hence right hand drive. It is owned by our very own Rob B. that owns many Chrysler products. Rob participates on the forum every now and then. On the garage front. Finished putting up all the OSB panels that I could. I worked hard in the heat of the day to finish up where I had insulation to be covered. I put up 18 panels. Now I have to get more insulation and more panels. Here is a pic.

It is June 9th, Tuesday, AM. Heading out into the garage to hang more panels on the wall. Got 7 more done yesterday, before it just got so hot I could not stand it. So 9 panels are up, only 21 more to go. And Greg has a weekend train story for us. "Beautiful weekend made special by Sunday's excursion on the newly restored 611 steamer, for Barbara , Nathan and me. An 8 AM departure from the Manassas , Va station and following the old (1854) Manassas Gap Railroad, once a hotly contested line during the Civil War. Winding it's way through the Thorofare and Manassas Gaps to Front Royal where the direction was reversed by backing the Pullman cars onto a bridge over the Shenandoah for the return. A beautiful day, beautiful scenery, and the wisp of smoke in the air. Especially pleasing was seeing my son Nate enjoying the ride, a repeat of one he took when just a toddler. Norfolk and Southern, the Virginia Museum of Transportation, the N.C. Transportation Museum, cast, crew and everybody involved are to be commended for the wonderful thing they are doing by making this behemoth operational and available for the history lesson. Wonderful.

It is Sunday, PM, June 7th. Took the Jaguar to the 38th annual Lily Pons All British Car Show. The car ran great. Corvette Wayne gave me some race fuel a couple of weeks ago and encouraged me to put some in the Jaguar. So yesterday I put in about three gallons. Wow, what a difference in the running of the car. Certainly more responsive and it felt more powerful. In all it was about a 120 mile round trip. The weather and the show were perfect. Not as many cars this year. Looked to be down about 30% or more. But still there were lots of really nice cars. We had lots of people looking at the car, and we enjoyed talking to everyone. Here are a few pics of the show. Something different. There were several cars for sale. So I thought I would put up their pics and the prices. They were all driver quality so you can see what about $6,500 will buy you. The little white Lotus was for sale also, but I did not get the price on that one. It was a basket case. On the garage. When we got home we finished sealing the floor. It got two coats. So the sealing is all done. On to hanging more OSB panels tomorrow.

Spinney if correct. I would definitely change the oil at least before you start to crank it over. The best thing to do would be to remove the pan and clean out all the gunk. I would turn it over without plugs. Good luck. I am sure you can get a pan gasket from Olson's gaskets in Washington. http://www.olsonsgaskets.com/

Roger, the sealer is water based. There were no fumes either. Container said that no specific cautions were required. Alice did not step in the stuff. She just applied the second coat. The first coat was dry. Will keep everything off of it until tomorrow PM. We have used 5 gallons of the sealer so far.

It is Saturday, AM, June 6th. Went to start up the Jaguar this morning as we plan on heading to a British car show tomorrow. Darn, a no start. Checked all the fuses, all OK. Then checked the choke solenoid. Oh that is the problem. The solenoid works, but the jet that drops down to allow the extra fuel into the manifold was stuck. With that freed up, she roared to life. Today was also seal the concrete day in the garage. Moved over all the stuff into the workshop area, and then Alice started the spraying of the sealer. It went really fast, maybe 30 minutes. Now we have to wait a couple of hours and Alice will put on a second coat. We will do the last quarter of the floor late Sunday or early Monday. While Alice was busy I un-boxed and assembled the 26 drawer tool cabinet that I bought at the local Harbor Freight store. Pretty nice for not much money. On sale and loaded into the Suburban for $314. On Monday I plan on heading back to Home Depot for more insulation and just thee more boards for the kick plates. The plan for next week is to finish up the insulation as high as I can safely go and put up the OSB panels. The panels should go pretty quickly, but I do have to measure and cut out little sections for the electrical outlets, which will slow us down a bit. I will use a jig saw for those cuts.

OMG! It looks so darn real. I would have not believed that such fine work could be done. Awesome.

John, I have never seen them either. I will have to keep an eye out for them. I don't know how they would work on heavier cars from the late 20s. On the garage. I worked eight hours putting up insulation. I am a little itchy and coughing from the fiberglass, but I made it through five bundles of the stuff. I am to the point where I will need a lift to go up higher. I did put in one panel of insulation above the OSB that I put in. A lot of going up and down a ladder for not much progress. My hand is a little crippled from using the stable gun too. I will probably get a few more bundles of insulation to do everything I can reach without a lift.

It is Wednesday, early PM, June 3rd. Headed off to Home Depot this morning to pick up another load of supplies. Had the llama trailer so was able to easily pick up 20 sheets of OSB panels, 5 bundles of insulation, 10 pressure treated kick boards, and a couple of boxes of construction screws. All that came to a bit over $600. When I got home I unloaded everything except for the OSB panels. But I did take out two of the panels and put them up to see how they were going to fit and look. I have one screwed down, and a couple of screws in the other. I have to cut and fit the little bits of insulation before I screw it down permanently. The panels will be painted at some point. Probably a light gray tone. This past Monday Alice and I headed off to Harbor Freight to see if we could find a workbench rather than scab something together. We found this for $80. It will do the job for now. I have several work tables and metal benches that I will use also. I do not want to over buy and over populate the garage. And they are also going to have a parking lot sale on Friday. Heading there early to see if I can pick up a new tool cabinet. This afternoon I will put up some more insulation. Oh, at it was 55 degrees this morning and raining. Love it.

It is Monday morning, and it must be June 1st. Big storms headed this way for the afternoon. We are heading off to pick up a couple of workbenches from Harbor Freight that are on sale. These will go in the new garage. We hope to do some concrete sealing today also. Just depends on how the day goes with farm chores and the heat. Heat or no heat, Greg has a weekend report for us. "Fast and furious weekend. Saturday saw Barb, the maroon Avanti,Seabiscuit and I stop by the Paul Rose home. He was having a cookout to celebrate his son Preston's graduation from High School. Good company, great food. From there it was a convenient drive to Burchill's, while there I was scolded because the air in the Stoddard Dayton wasn't up to specs. Topped them off. The old Avanti did a good day's service. Sunday. Finding myself without adult supervision, nice day that it was I returned to the Burchill Auto Repair and Repository to spend some quality time with the Stoddard. We began the reinstallation of some brass hardware sent out for buff and coat. Got most of it. Also found time to get reacquainted with the old REO. Drained the old motor oil and will let it drip until I return with some fresh. Then it will be time to check the fuel tank for debris. I'm looking forward to getting it going again."=

Still Sunday, but early PM. Can't take it any more. I don't know what just bloomed, but I just cannot stop sneezing. Did I say I am miserable. Going inside into the AC and out of the heat. But I did make some busy work in the garage. First I moved everything from one side of the garage to the other and swept it out. This will be the side that we seal first, it is one half of the garage. Will use a blower on the concrete just before we start the sealing process. I then installed a couple of kick boards to see how they would fasten in and look. I am using screws to fasten everything so if the boards ever need to come out it will be an easy job and not wreck the wood. I then put the fiberglass insulation up eight feet to see how that would install and look. The panels fit perfectly for width and the depth of the actual insulation. I will have to cut some smaller panels to fill in to complete each wall section. I also wanted to figure out how many of the insulation packages i will need to cover the walls of the garage. Looks like I will need 15 more at $70 each. So i figure that adding the OSB wood panels to the first eight feet and then the double bubble wrap I will be into it about $1500 or so. The roof will probably be done the same way, so figure another $1000 and the rental of an electric two man lift. Looks like it will be more or less around $3000. Next week we will pick up some OSB panels, kick boards and insulation from our local Home Depot. Here are a couple of pics.

It is still May, but the last day, the 31st of the month. On record to make May the hottest month ever if we hit 90 degrees today. Just a couple of notes on the garage. I installed the man door lockset and also a remote keypad for the garage door opener. Even managed to program it and the remote to the new security setting. I also went to Home Depot and picked up pressure treated wood that I am going to use as a kick plate around the floor of the garage. I want to keep the OSB wood sheets off the floor in case I decided to wash out the place from time to time. I am using pressure treated 1x4 decking that way the bottoms will not rot off over time. I only bought six pieces to see how I am going to fit them and how they look. I also got some fiberglass insulation, just one bundle, that I plan to use in the wall cavities. On the bottom eight feet of the walls it will be covered with the OSB wood sheets. Above that I am going to use the double bubble aluminum sheets that are also used under the roof. That will give a good thermal and reflective value of about R-25. Have not decided what I am going to do with the underside of the roof yet. Probably do the same thing, but will have to rent a lift for a week or so to do the work.

It is Saturday, PM, May 30th. Another hot and humid day. Over 90 degrees. But it was a good day for the garage construction. The crew came back today and finished up the final grading. Took the operator about six hours to do everything I wanted done. I think that I will order another truck load of gravel to bring up the ramps to the bays and to fill a bit more gravel around the building itself. Will be planting some grass seed in the areas that are now barren. I know that most of it will not take, but it is a start. Best time do redo it will be in the fall. Next week we will seal the concrete and begin the assembly of the four post lift.

It is Friday, May 29th. Lots of farm stuff going on, but very little car stuff. The growing season is really busy so mowing, fence repair, and general outside work is required. On the garage front, little progress has been made. Next week I hope to do more now that the concrete is officially cured enough to work on. I did get a new outside key pad for the garage door. Will install and program that today. Looks to be simple, but that always seems to turn on me. I got the key pad so I do not have to carry a key with me all the time. Just something I will loose. But Greg has been really busy. Here is a great update on all his projects. "Been a while since I've checked in. Now that agreeable weather is here, There aren't enough hours in the day. Everything I'm doing is in crunch time whether it be day job or after. Some of the efforts: While the Matheson engine project awaits some special hardware on order.... *The Overland carburetor sent out for overhaul is still on the shelf awaiting its turn. *Stoddard Dayton taillamp sent out for restoration still awaiting its turn. *Things under my control: # the black Avanti 5054 project. I've rebuilt the crash pads that mount over the doors. The old ones just too damaged by dampness. Duplicated in the original method of construction, Masonite backing covered by jute padding (with a little help from some polyester padding), new vinyl and new panel clips. Finished tonight and now installed. Next is to do a little repair and recoloring of the sun visors and roll bar cover. After securing the back seat armrest panels and windlace, it will be on to the carpet. I've prepared for this by installing Dynamat insulation on the flooring. David Coco's Carpets R Us will supply the pretty carpet parts. # 1910 Overland has had the back seat's metal skin stripped of paint and I'm looking forward to having some repair to its lower edges, damaged by rust. # 1910 REO awaits some detailing to make a little better showing when it goes to the Old Car Festival in Dearborn next Sept. and I'm also looking into the possibility of having its tires recapped. Conversation with Temple leads me to believe it might be do-able. He stopped by his friendly local recapper today for a discussion. #Seabiscuit the Maroon Avanti is running well. Haven't had time to get the the set of Halibrand wheels and new tires ready and mounted. #21 Dodge Brothers has had a fresh set of exhaust manifold gaskets and with a couple test runs into town....and back, it feels like its old self. #Stoddard Dayton at rest. I'd pulled some brass do-dads off for buff and clear coating. They are done and awaiting to find time for me to go back on the car. All for now, got to check to see if the vinyl cement is dry.... Photos of crash pad construction and installation. =

It is Monday, AM, May 25th. A week to go and the concrete will be cured so then will be able to seal it and then begin the assembly of the lifts. Until then I am just cooling it. I have been moving in some tools and such that will hang on the wall. Not much, but it feels like I am doing something. Speaking of something. I did take a couple of cans of foam and seal up the one inch space between the metal sides and the floor board. That at least will keep the rodents from coming in and stop some heat loss.

It is Thursday, AM, May 21st. Waiting for the concrete to cure before I can do much more in the garage. We have another week and a half to go. All the inside electrics are done with the exception of the final hookup for the 2 post lift. So I spent a few hours cleaning up and putting things away from all the work. I even hung a few things up, but I am trying to keep everything off the floor until we seal it up. It is hard not to be moving in shelving and such. But I did put together the three pieces of support equipment that I bought a couple of months back. So the little mechanics seat, support lift and oil drain container are all together and ready to go to work in a few weeks. I did not pay much for the equipment and the fit and finish of all the pieces are good with the exception of a slightly out of kilter oil drain pan. Still no earth moving equipment in the pasture or word when they are going to finish the final grading. Once the grading is done I think I am finished with the contractor. Will schedule the rest of the stuff to be done on my own. I hate this hurry up and wait business.

Tom, great looking original car. Here is the direct link. http://www.ebay.com/itm/231567152102?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&fromMakeTrack=true

It is Monday, May 18th. Another hot and humid day so we are working in the morning and cooling our heels in the PM. Lots of farm work to do, everything is growing like crazy. So we have lots of mowing and general clean-up to do to keep the farm tidy. But we did have time to work on the new garage. Camaro Steve came over and helped our son, Tim, put up the three fans. Then they turned their attention to the finishing the work on the garage door opener. Steve completed the hook up and adjusted the door opening and closing. Really works great. With the garage door opener project completed, all the inside electrics are done. So Tim closed up the main panel. I spent the morning getting the Jaguar all cleaned up from being outside in the rain storms. At least the rain washed all the pollen off of it. We all pitched in and cleaned the garage from the big party on Saturday. I now have the garage back. Going to call and talk to the HVAC folks today to make sure that I have selected the proper unit. I am going to move gravel today to make a ramp for the second bay. Plan to move the Avanti over from the main house garage. I am trying to avoid moving stuff into the garage as it will all have to come out in a couple of weeks for floor sealing and garage insulation. The cars are easy to move in and out. I just have to protect the floors from oil drips from both cars so we do not have to do a lot of cleaning before we seal it. And of course we are waiting for the contractor to finish the retaining wall and complete the grading. Will call them today to see if I can get a schedule out of them. Final grading is critical as they have to make the the proper grade and depth for the concrete aprons as well as the ramps for all three doors. And of course, without the final grading the electric company cannot do the main electrical connection.

Old car fan, you can always reach me at unimogjohn@aol.com We would all like to see pics of your new garage too. It is Sunday, May 17th. We had a huge neighborhood garage 60s themed party last night. Everyone had a great time. What a great send off to the new garage. We had it all decorated up and lots of food. We even had dancing. A great time. And everyone had fun putting on temporary tattoos. All the wiring is done with the exception of the fans. The new parts arrived so they should be in today. The panel wiring is done and the box closed too. We are back-feeding the lighting circuit and one bank of outlets. Works just fine and have not blown the house circuit either. The LED shop lights are awesome.

Still Thursday. Tim really went to work on the electrics for the new garage. All the wiring has been pulled and most of the light fixtures have been installed. He should be finished with everything by tomorrow PM. It is a first class job. I will have lots of lights and many double outlets throughout the garage. He even put four GFI outlets outside. Here is Time doing some high work. The propane representative stopped by. If I decide to go with propane the cost for a leased tank is zero if I buy 100 gallons per year. They will install two, 120 gallon above ground tanks. There is an installation and safety check one time cost of $150. And Joe/packick on the forum sent us a present for the new garage. A funnel that can be used to fill the cars with oil, or as a drain for those oil containers that need more time for draining. Thanks Joe !!!!!!!!